Enemy to the Patriarchy
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by the journalist and feminist author, Mona Eltahawy to discuss her new book, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls. They also talk about #MeToo, the power of fighting back, feminist activism through hashtags on social media and the importance of women’s voice in defying the patriarchy.
ITT Staff Picks:
- Mona Eltahawy’s viral social media campaigns about sexual assault, via Time
- Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi gets more time in jail for a poem about vaginas, via CNN
- Check out Deena Mohamed's web comic, Qahera about a feminist muslim Egyptian superhero
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
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| 0:24.0 | Hey what's up. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey what's up. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:32.0 | This is a podcast about politics, race and culture. |
| 0:35.0 | From a POC perspective, I'm Marianne Hossa. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm Julio Rico-Lober-Ella. |
| 0:39.0 | And we are so excited to have with us from Montreal, Canada because she happens to be there right now, but she lives in Harlem, New York City, Mona Al Tahawi. She's a journalist, she's a feminist activist. She's the author of a new book called The Seven Necessary Sins |
| 0:54.4 | for Women and Girls. Mona, welcome to you in the thick. I'm so delighted to be |
| 0:59.2 | speaking with you, Maria and Julio because I am a long time fan of both of you. We love you we love you |
| 1:05.4 | Mona. So Mona I think just you were born in Egypt am I right? |
| 1:09.3 | That is correct. Okay and you've been living in the United States for how long? |
| 1:13.0 | So I actually moved to the US in July of 2000, |
| 1:16.4 | and then I moved to New York City in 2002. |
| 1:20.4 | Wow. Cool. |
| 1:21.8 | So dude, I'm going to let you basically talk about your book because you were |
| 1:26.9 | automatically born into a society that is based on misogyny and oppression simply because |
| 1:32.2 | we are women and this is very difficult to hear. |
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